Nightly Business Report, Feb. 10, 2009
Reporter Scott Gurvey: The microprocessor is high on our list of innovations; also, the personal computers they make possible. Flash memory and liquid crystal displays are on the list. Also the programs which control the machines: productivity products like spreadsheets and word processors; programming paradigms like open source software and services. Many of the innovations [...]
Cryptography at World Science Festival: Humans Are the Weakest Link
June 8, 2011 Popular Mechanics by Mary Beth Griggs At the World Science Festival this weekend, four very different cryptography experts gathered to discuss the history of humans’ attempts to keep our information secret from one another. As our security measures improve, so do hacker tactics. But, the experts say, there’s one thing that never [...]
NSA Declassifies 200 Year Old Report
Secrecy News June 9th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood The National Security Agency announced June 9th that it has declassified a report that is over two hundred years old. The newly declassified report, entitled “Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Writing,” dates from 1809. It is part of a collection of 50,000 pages of [...]
Battle of Midway veterans recall shaping history
4 June 2011 written by Troy Moon pnj.com The history of the Battle of Midway has been told and told and told. Retired Lt. Col. Fred Cooke was part of the military force that participated in the epic World War II battle. But he’d rather talk about the after-party. Cooke, “95 years old and holding,’’ [...]
Image Gallery: Government’s 10 Most Powerful Supercomputers
Slideshow of the machines J. Nicholas Hoover Information Week 05/05/2010 The United States government owns many of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, including six of the top ten. These supercomputers are being used for everything from climate modeling to building spaceships to basic science research.
Observations: Not That Secure after All: Cryptography in a Connected World
Not That Secure after All: Cryptography in a Connected World blog post in Scientific American By Neda Afsarmanesh | Jun 6, 2011 “Keeping Secrets: Cryptography in a Connected World,” ended June 4 at the World Science Festival. But the lively panelists, often in disagreement with one another, seemed to be unanimously content with this assertion. [...]
NSA Information Assurance
The National Security Agency plans to spend $902 million on information assurance in fiscal 2011, funding everything from advanced encryption to cyber warfare training. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek April 09, 2010 The National Security Agency will spend $902 million on information assurance next year, according to an NSA budget request posted on a Department of Defense [...]
Hi, Robot
By Sam Anderson New York Times Review of Books 4 April 2010 The history of the vocoder, cryptography’s top-secret funk machine. The vocoder—code name Special Customer, the Green Hornet, Project X-61753, X-Ray, and SIGSALY—started distorting human speech in earnest during World War II, in response to the excellence of German wiretapping. Read More
Spook Stories
Freedom’s John Hogan leads New England chapter of Naval crypto veterans by Daymond Steer Staff Writer April 01, 2010 FREEDOM — Former Navy spook John Hogan traveled the world monitoring America’s enemies for about 20 years. Now in retirement, Hogan is helping to keep Cold War history alive as the president of the Naval Cryptologic [...]
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